IPL to give ‘Katju of the series’ award to the most lenient umpire of the tournament

IPL authorities today announced a new award, namely “Katju of the series” which would be given to the most merciful umpire at the end of the tournament. The award is named after the legendry judge of Supreme court justice Katju, who wrote the famous letter to the five Pandav brothers of Mahabharat to pardon Duryodhana and Dushasana for what they did to Pandavas. The move has been lauded by fast bowlers and slow running batsman who might now get more benefit of doubt from the umpire.

“The new award would give incentive to the umpires to go out of way and be more merciful. This would also make the game much more exciting and unpredictable. Also since 90% Indians are fools and 10% are intelligent, we should have a sport which should suit the majority.” Said IPL boss Rajeev Shukla. However a highly placed source within BCCI told that the award is announced to cover up for poor decision making in IPL matches by the umpires. When asked about it, IPL officials refused to comment.

The move has been welcomed by a section of players who are desperate for more leniencies in umpiring and is led by RCB pace bowler R.P.Singh. Member of Parliament from Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu said, “My dear friend, the one good thing about luck is that it will change one day. And this move would help move the luck in the hands of the one who holds mercy in his heart.” When asked to describe the logic behind the statement, Sidhu started speaking Punjabi and post that began to laugh for next five minutes.

Management students from IIM Wasseypur who are doing internship under Australian coach Mike Arthur tried to find out the high level implication of the award. After doing a rigorous data analysis using all sort of statistical tools and applying various Management frameworks they concluded in a 200 slider presentation that the award would benefit both batsman and bowler equally.

 “Men are foolish to give power to other men to be merciful. For it is He, the one above who can only provide guidance and mercy to mankind.” Said a priest of a temple dedicated to the mythological God of cricket named Lord Ravindra Jadeja. 

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Edited version of the article was also Published by the Unrealtimes